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The EarthSync Festival will be held on February 17
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The second annual EarthSync Festival featuring contemporary and traditional music and dance and visual art will be held on February 17 (7 p.m. onwards) at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao concert hall (Lady Andal School auditorium). Artistes from across th
e world will perform Indian classical, devotional, middle-eastern, western and electronic music forms, traditional and modern dance. Images of six Asian countries will also be on display during the festival.
The aim of the festival is to create awareness and interest in traditional music and engage in emerging forms of music. From a spiritual atmosphere to an explosive show of percussion, Buddhist chants and folk music, Sufi and Carnatic sounds, traditional instruments in an electronic mix and much more.
As a world music record label, Earthsync nurtures global sound. Their commitment extends to musicians developing their own style, uniting music forms of other cultures with the rich ethnic music of their own roots.
Through its production studio Clementine, Earthsync also produces world music, visual projects to document rare and unique performances.
This year’s show will feature Zohar Fresco from Israel, who specialises in hand and frame drums; dholak and tabla player K.V. Balakrishnan, a leading sessions percussionist who is well-known in the southern film industry; violinist B.V. Raghavendran; Carnatic vocalist Anuradha Vishwanathan; flautist Navin Chandar S., who is trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani styles; drummer Yoav Bunzel from Israel; dancer Sangeeta Ghosh, who trained in Bharatanatyam and has studied Uday Shankar’s dance style; sitar artiste R.K. Ravikumar; bassist Paul Jacob (from India) whose company Bodhi Muzzik has produced, performed and recorded with many folk, Carnatic and Western musicians; Buddhist monks from Tashi Lhumpo monastary in Mysore; Sufi singers Abdul Gani, Haja Bawa, Saburmaideen Nagapattinam who will sing in Tamil with Arabic phrases from Quran; Patrick Sebag from Israel, who is a musician and a music producer; Ma Faiza from the U.K. is a DJ, producer and the label manager of Masti Music; Maghudattam is a dancer and percussionist from Kerala; pulivesham dance performers from South India; contemporary dancer Chisato Ohna from Japan; vocalist Mahesh Vinayakram and K.V. Ramesh, who is trained in mridangam, morsing and violin at Kalakshetra.
The event will include screening of footage from the film “Laya Project”, a personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and dedicated to the survivors of the tsunami.
Tickets are priced at Rs. 300 and Rs. 200. For details call 98840 24268 or email earth@earthsync.com or visit www.earthsync.com
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